Improvement in meat-tenderers



L. sToNL MEAT TENDERER.

Patented Sept. 12 1876.`

hVVILPMESSESA UNITED STATES,

PATENT OEEIOE.

LEv'I sTONE, OE MOUNT VERNON, AssIGNOR OE ONE-HALE Hrs RIGHT TO JASPER D. HARRIS, OE DANvILLE, OHIO.

IMPROVEMENT iN MEAT-frENDERERs.

Specication forming part of Letters Patent N o. 182,243, dated September 12, 1876; application tiled July 7, 1876;

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, LEVI STONE, of Mount Vernon, Ohio, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Meat-Tenderers, of which the following is a full, clear, and exact description, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, making a part ot' this speciiication, in Whichv i Figure l is a perspective view of my invention. Fig. 2 is a vertical section of the same.

My invention relates to a device for tendering meat; and it consists in rows ofdoublepointed needles, fastened in 'a head-block, the block being fastened to a handle.

ln the,said drawings, A represents the handle, and B the'head-block, which is secured to the handle by means of the screw b. Inserted in this head-block, in rectangular rows, are the double-pointed needles@ a. By placing the needles in rectangularirows, and having the cutting-edges of one/row at right angles to the cutting-edges 'of the next row, a complete cutting of all the bers of the meat is insured.

I am aware that a 'series of knife-blades have been used for this purpose, with all their cutting-edges in a line with each other, which Vonly insures the cutting of the bers OI' the meat running at right angles 'to their edges,

pointed needles a a, the edges of some -being placed at right angles to the edges of others, in combination with the screw b and handle A, substantially as and for the purpose set forth.

i LEVI STONE.` 'Witnessesz CLARENCE SNOOK, BENJAMIN A. IF. GREER. 

